Translating Terror: Globalisation and the New Planetary Wars
12 November 2005
University of Warwick
Venue: Social Studies S0.20
Conference Programme
9.00 – 9.30
Registration and coffee
9.30 – 10.00
Welcome and Introduction
Susan Bassnett and Jan Aart Scholte
10.00 – 11.00
Keynote Speaker: Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 1.00
Panel One: Globalisation and Political Violence
Chaired by Chris Hughes
Globalisation and Spread of Violence in the Middle East
Masoud Ghaffari (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
Tightening the Grip on the Slippery Pole: The Globalisation of
Control from the New World Order to the War on Terror
David Small (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Propaganda in the War on Terrorism. How Iraq’s Dictator
Became a Terrorist Rat
Anders G. Romarheim (Norwegian Institute of International
Affairs)
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 4.00
Panel Two: Language and Translation in Media Discourses
on Terror
Chaired by Esperança Bielsa
Missiles in Athens and Tanks at Heathrow: Urban Security and
the Materialisation of ‘Global’ Threat
Stuart Price (De Montfort University, UK)
War Toys
David Machin (Cardiff University, UK)
A Study of Shifts in the Translation and the Analysis of a
Crucial Political Speech
Gilles Quentel (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Interpreting in Diplomatic Settings: From the Cold War to the
War on Terrorism
Maria Rosaria Buri (University of Lecce, Italy)
4.00 - 4.30
Coffee
4.30 – 5.15
General Discussion and Closing Remarks